Men's Basketball Opens 2010-11 Season at Home vs. High-Powered VMI on Sunday at 3:00 p.m.

The UMBC men's basketball team opens its 25th season
of NCAA Division I competition on Sunday, Nov. 14 when the
Retrievers host the high-powered VMI Keydets. Tip-off time is set
for 3:00 p.m. at the RAC Arena. For the fourth consecutive season,
all UMBC men's basketball games are broadcast on Fox 1370 Sports
Radio (www.fox1370.com) with
Gary Stein and Paul Mittermeier on Sunday's call. All home games
are also available on UMBC Athletics' streaming
site--www.umbcretrievers.tv.

After back-to-back appearances in the America East
title game and one championship in 2008, UMBC staggered to a 4-26
mark last season. As opposed to a very young team (9 prior years of
collegiate experience) that took the floor last year, the
Retrievers have a mature squad (18 years of experience) that takes
the court in UMBC's 25th year of NCAA Division I basketball. A key
member of the 2008 title squad, post Justin
Fry, returns for his final year after missing the
2009-10 campaign following knee surgery. Fry, a UMBC graduate
student in economics, will be joined by another pair of grad
students, guard Travis
King (GW) and forward Laurence
Jolicoeur(Manhattan). Junior guard Chris De La
Rosamade his UMBC debut last season and led the
America East Conference with 5.1 assists per game. He is UMBC's
leading returning scorer at 11.7 ppg.

KEYDET UPDATE: VMI opened its
season on Friday by hosting Randolph College. The Keydets have led
the nation in scoring in each of the past four years, a feat that
has never been accomplished previously in NCAA DI history. VMI was
10-19 a year ago, but returns players that averaged in five
double-digits last season. Senior guard Austin
Kenon averaged 18.4 points per game as VMI scored
88.6 ppg a season ago. They did, however, allow 96.5 ppg and had
the poorest rebound margin (-12.0) in the nation.

Who's Up Next: UMBC heads into the city to
play at Loyola on Wednesday, Nov. 17. That game will be televised
by MASN-TV